Workshops examine ways to mitigate flaring

Skies throughout the Permian Basin are lit up by natural gas being flared, largely because it has nowhere else to go.

Flaring has long been an issue, one that was first addressed 15 years ago when the Department of Energy funded a flaring study.

So much has changed since the Flaring Issues, Solutions and Technologies program began seven years ago that he and the Houston Advanced Research Center requested more funding from the DOE to update the program. READ MORE